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Two Men Face Gay Hate Crime Charges

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Two Queens men have been arrested for yelling anti-gay slurs, as well as taunting, punching and kicking Jack Price after Price left a 24-hour deli near his home October 8.

The first man arrested, 26-year-old Daniel Aleman, was arraigned Tuesday. Aleman faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the charge of assault as a hate crime.

Police say they arrested a second man in the apparent assault, Daniel Rodriguez, 21, in Norfolk, Virginia, Tuesday evening. Rodriguez is in custody and is being brought back to New York, according to the Associated Press.

After the attack, Price, 49, was placed in a medically-induced coma. He suffered a fractured jaw and ribs, and a lacerated spleen. Both of his lungs are collapsed.

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Gus
from New Jersey

When will this kind of thing end. Those two men deserve the most severe punishment possible and the word should be posted in neighborhoods where those kinds of thugs live. A certain segment of of our society must learn soon and fast that this kind of intolerance will not be accepted.